Sharing this because I faced a very similar situation before..
If it wasn't because of a stranger calling the police who subsequently sent me to the hospital..
I probably wouldn't be here.
I was 15. I didn't get her name. I can't remember what she looks like. My life was a blur at that time and I barely want to remember it.
I was crying alone at the bus interchange, at 2am in the morning. She walked past and saw me.
She came over, held my hands, and gave me a hug. "Everything will be okay." She waited with me until the police came.
I wouldn't experience my life today, if it wasn't for her. And I'm forever grateful. I've been paying it forward ever since.
You never know what someone else is facing at home or in their life.
Lead with love. Help someone else feel like they matter in this world.
Everyone else can be assholes, but you can be the spark to change someone else's world.
I will not do the sinkie pwn sinkie story. I will do the sinkie lifts up sinkie story.
When I was 10 and had to go for violin lesson on a Friday afternoon after a long week of school and tuition classes and wanted to jump off the 5th floor of the school building, my math teacher stopped me, called my mother, and I think for the first time in what was years I didn't go for a violin lesson that week and had a bit of rest.
When she went through the EOY paper with me after the exams later that year she said to me "See LJB, life isn't so bad" and that moment has stuck with me even 4 decades later.
The next year after that, I got into a big fight with one of my classmates and ran off and hid in a school staircase, but the pri sch counsellor found me, calmed me down and in subsequent counselling sessions taught me some basic breathing exercises to help with stress and lowering my heart rate. He also seemed quite concerned with the amount of stress I was harboring at that age already.
I think we are a nation of good people, even if our actions and words sometimes seem otherwise. Through the pwnage there is love for each other.
sinkie lift sinkie pls. No more pwning. We must love each other as one united ppl... ♥️